Most Popular Books by Glen David Gold

A quintessentially American epic, Sunnyside stars the one and only Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin. It’s 1916 and, after an extraordinary mass delusion where Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places simultaneously, his fame is at its peak but his inspiration is at a low. As he struggles to find a film project as worthy as himself, we are introduced to a dazzling cast of characters that take us from the battlefields of France to the Russian Revolution and from the budding glamour of Hollywood to madcap Wild West shows. The result is a spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition, and the birth of modern America.

From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother. “Extraordinary ... An audacious, boundary-shattering work.” —Los Angeles Times Glen David Gold’s earliest memories are of a childhood in which he had everything he could possibly want. But when his father’s fortune disappeared and his parents divorced, Gold fell out of his well-curated Southern California life. He was now growing up by the side of his increasingly erratic mother, among con men and get-rich schemes in ‘70s San Francisco. Gold brings all his gifts as a novelist to a kaleidoscope of his most formative experiences: his salvation at boarding school; his dream job at an independent bookstore; a punk rock riot; a romance with a femme fatale; the start of his writing career; and his estrangement from his mother, who moved in with her soul mate, a man who threatened to kill her. By turns heartbreaking and disarmingly funny, I Will Be Complete is one son’s journey, a series of love stories layered into a search for autonomy, and, ultimately, a way of letting go.

Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great by Houdini himself, was born into privilege but became a magician out of need: only when dazzling an audience can he defeat his fear of loneliness. But in 1920s America the stakes are growing higher, as technology and the cinema challenge the allure of magic and Carter''s stunts become increasingly audacious. Until the night President Harding takes part in Carter''s act only to die two hours later, and Carter finds himself pursued not only by the Secret Service but by a host of others desperate for the terrible secret they believe Harding confided in him. Seamlessly blending reality and fiction, Gold lays before us a glittering and romantic panorama of our modern world at a point of irrevocable change.

1923, San Francisco : c''est l''âge d''or du cirque et des magiciens, qui connaissant un succès sans précédent à travers tout le pays. Carter le Grand, l''un des prestidigitateurs les plus célèbres du pays, donne ce soir-là un spectacle exceptionnel devant le président des Etats-Unis, Warren G Harding, qu''il invite sur scène pour participer à l''un de ses stupéfiants numéros. La représentation est un triomphe mais, quelques heures plus tard, le président meurt mystérieusement dans sa chambre d''hôtel. Sachant qu''il va être suspecté, Carter disparaît afin de mener sa propre enquête. Persuadé que le magicien est dépositaire d''un secret d''une importance capitale, l''agent Griffin, des services secrets, se lance alors à ses trousses. Affronter un génie du trompe-l''œil et de l''illusion tel que Carter ne va pas être chose aisée. Roman picaresque à l''imagination virevoltante, Carter contre le diable est à la fois un palpitant thriller historique où l''illusion règne en maître et un portrait magistral de l''Amérique des années 1920. Il a été élu meilleur livre de l''année par le Washington Post et le Los Angeles Times.

Als tijdens de show van een wereldberoemd illusionist de president van de Verenigde Staten sterft, gaat de FBI op onderzoek uit.

An acclaimed magician plans a stunt involving the president that could ruin his career if it goes wrong.